Privacy Policy

Last updated 30.12.2023.

www.rainknitwear.com is operated by the following organisation:

Piuha Works Oy / Rain Knitwear Designs
Finnish Business ID: 2352896-7
VAT ID: FI23528967

Contact email: veera.100rain@gmail.com

Your privacy is very important to us

If you make a purchase, or contact us with a query, we will use your data to fulfil the contract of delivering your purchase or responding to you. We do not sell or trade email lists with other companies or businesses. Any data you share with us in order to make a purchase will only be used send you the item or to contact you about your order. Our privacy policy may change as we continue to develop our website and online services, so please check this privacy policy on an ongoing basis.

Website visitors

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form. Squarespace stores your data on a secure server behind a firewall

Data collected on purchases

When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. For digital pattern purchases the only required collected information are your email address and your location country. The country information allows us to comply with EU VAT and pay the correct amount of VAT to the right country. We may also collect the following optional information if you provide it: your name, billing and shipping address. We share this purchase information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience. Our payment processors Stripe and PayPal will also collect payment information from you, please see Stripe’s privacy policy and PayPal’s privacy policy.

Ravelry

When you make a purchase from our Ravelry store on Ravelry.com we receive a copy of your purchase receipt from Ravelry via email, and information about your transaction in PayPal. If your purchase is within the EU, this information includes your location because this allows us to comply with EU VAT and pay the correct amount of VAT to the right country; we only use this location data for accounting purposes. If there is a pattern update we use Ravelry’s update system which automatically sends an email notification or Ravelry message. For more information, please refer to Ravelry’s privacy policy.

Squarespace analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics by Squarespace, including: information about your browser, network, and device, web pages you visited prior to coming to this website and your IP address. This information may also include details about your use of this website, including: clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, timestamps. We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. You can opt-out of Squarespace analytics by clicking “Decline” in our cookie banner.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses. These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data. Paypal and Ravelry also use cookies. You can opt-out of cookies or delete your browsing history, including cookies, from your browser.

Fonts

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including: information about your browser, network, or device, information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it and your IP address.

Links

When you click on links on our website, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

How can I update or delete my details?

If you would like your data to be deleted, please email us. We will then delete your data that we have access to.

Disclosure

Our patterns are protected by the Finnish and international copyright law. No content of a pattern (including text, charts, photos, layout, or portions thereof) may be copied or shared. Photocopying or emailing copies of any pattern file to others is a violation of copyright law. All content on this website (text and images) are protected by copyright. No content of this site may be copied or shared without the written permission from us.